Pakistani Rumours

[ysengrin]

Can anybody point me to a source for this other than www.truthout.org ? (somewhere with a strong factual reputation would be nice) Right now I'm classing it as conspiracy nut ranting.

EDIT: The New Republic does indeed have the original article online here. No sources named, but I'd consider the story more likely now.

In Pakistan, security officials revealed that the Bush Administration was blatantly pushing Gen. Musharaff's government "to deliver" bin Laden or other HVTs - High Value Targets - "before the [upcoming] U.S. elections." As brilliantly reported last week by the often pro-Bush New Republic, a White House official explicitly told the Pakistani intelligence chief that the best date for good news would be the last ten days of July, just before or during the Democratic National Convention.

"It would be best," said the Bush aide, "if the arrest or killing of [any] HVT were announced on twenty-six, twenty-seven, or twenty-eight July."